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Chief economist update: US labour market turns V-shaped

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... lockdown restrictions by both state and local governments have thawed frozen business activity and by extension, demand for workers. It's still early days. The hope is for continued improvement in the US labour market. The risk is that the current ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... business investment. He suggests three policy solutions; boost household incomes, increase wages, or retrain and up skill workers. Boosting household incomes could be achieved through government payments or tax relief (although this would add to the ...

Super release widens gender gap: AMP

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... Australia held by women. Female work hours also reduced by 11.5% in April, compared to a 7.5% reduction suffered by male workers. AMP managing director of superannuation, retirement and platforms, Lara Bourguignon, said the analysis highlights the disproportionate ...

Let's not waste the crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... had come to the fore over the last few months, with the economic implications of the pandemic hitting poorer, vulnerable workers harder than most. "It was initially surmised that COVID-19 did not discriminate based on socio-economic factors," she said. ...

Banks accused of violating worker ethics

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... report, the Finance Sector Union has delved into how the industry's "capitalist ethics" violate the ethical integrity of workers. The report was commissioned by the FSU and completed by the Religion and Social Policy Network of the University of Divinity. ...

Chief economist update: Japan reopens for business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... was invoke the Japanese' sense of community spirit and asked to limit social contacts by 70%-80%, for non-essential workers to work from home and companies to reduce shifts for workers who cannot work online. It couldn't have come soon enough ...

Switching prompts fund to alter allocations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... feel that doing so may help us meet investment return objectives and deliver on your retirement goals." With many Qantas workers impacted by the travel bans imposed to slow the spread of COVID-19, Qantas Super has already paid out at least $33 million ...

Industry flocks to JobKeeper handouts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... breakdown from the Australian Taxation Office. JobKeeper enrolments crossed 835,000 businesses employing over 5.5 million workers on May 12. But the most recent industry-level breakdown of applications is as of May 6. At that date, 13,493 financial and ...

Chief economist update: Pay cut or pay not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... participation rate from 66.0% in March to a 15-year low of 63.5% in April also helped keep the overall unemployed low - i.e. workers not working for work are not counted as unemployed. Then again, how can they when they are under house arrest and most ...

COVID-19 ushers in the future of work

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... and physical health, she argued. "That's going to have a price to pay at some point for health, or well-being, or workers getting burnt out," Yoong said. "All of that is not being factored in right now; its still novel, it's still fun to work ...

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Australia's retirement system receives first A-grade

KARREN VERGARA  |   11:59AM
Australia's retirement system has finally received an A-grade rating in the annual Marsh CFA Institute Global Pension Index after stagnating at the B+ level for the last five years.

Brighter Super changes up investment, insurance fees

KARREN VERGARA  |   12:00PM
Not-for-profit fund Brighter Super has introduced numerous changes to its fees, decreasing investment fees while increasing insurance costs.

Channel Capital wins distribution mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |   11:58AM
Channel Capital has been appointed by Coller EQT to distribute, promote and service investor support to the two secondaries strategies currently available in Australia.

Perpetual asset management outflows hit $9.6bn

VINNY VUCAGO  |   11:49AM
Perpetual's asset management business recorded $9.6 billion in net outflows during the September quarter, weighing on funds under management as its Corporate Trust Division reached a record $1.4 trillion in funds under administration.

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